The Unidentifiable Sadness of thumbs-up’s
They all thought it was just funny. That sweet old German lady who sold easter eggs on a local market, decorated with swastika’s, the Canadian coffee shop that served their coffee with the same symbol on top of the cream and the shoe company that gave the sole of their boots a graphic profile, so they would leave a despicable trace of swastikas where ever the one wearing them would walk. Just for fun, freedom of expression. Including German license plates with Nazi symbols, all these “artistic” ideas to slowly make these symbols becoming a normal part of society again, were declared illegal by different courts and judges. The thoughts behind it are scary though. Scary in a sense of the normalization of racism and nationalism being excepted by such a large number of people. The progress made in accepting the fact that the world is inhabited by all sorts of people with different beliefs, skin colour, religion, sexual preferences and lifestyles haven’t only come to a stop, but in fact is ...